2009/10/15 Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com:
On 10/11/09 5:36 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Michael Peelemail@mikepeel.net wrote:
Is it possible to find out how many times any given image has been viewed?
Modulo caching, I don't see why not. You'd need to process Squid logs as for page views. I don't know if it's being done right now, though.
As far as I know it's not currently being done, but it certainly could be.
I actually got some interesting image view stats out of the sampled page view logs for my talk at SVG Open; since thumbnails have the width in the URL we can for instance compare the actual usage of different sizes of images inline. (Though I only pulled up the data for SVG images for this test.)
Annotated presentation slides are up at: http://leuksman.com/pages/presentations#October_2009
It could be really interesting to pull such hit data straight out of the logs and make them available through the wiki, allowing comparing view frequencies of a given image over time and large vs small etc.
I have talked to Domas a couple of times (most recently Wikimania) about the possibility of aggregating thumbnail views for images a la his "wikistats". He is not too keen to do it...
You can approximate the same thing by combining CheckUsage with the wikistats page views. You won't get the info about the size of the thumbnail unless you do some extra hackery though. Also, it's quite a pain as CheckUsage is only a toolserver tool, and is subject to those usual vagaries of service.
I agree it would be great for Commons. All it needs is someone (with access to squid logs) who shares that enthusiasm... I think??
cheers Brianna